...be only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers. — Being invited to an illustrious company,...

...himself like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him. How poor, then, arc the acquirements, and how pitiable the pride of tho generality...

...may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." And is it reasonable to believe, that...

...only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great Ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.' New Discoveries. — Almost every scientific journal announces the discovery...

...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." GENERAL DUMESNIL. General Dumesnil, who lost a leg in the campaign of Russia,...

...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself iu now and llien finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The same sentiment might have been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke,...

...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." You have often seen a man raising a stone by means of a strong bar of iron....

...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,...

...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — to those...

...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'* — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,...